For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
ALAN WATTSYou do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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